Language/Esperanto/Grammar/Possesive-Adjectives

Possessive Adjective in Esperanto

Now that we have learned the pronouns: mi vi li ŝi ĝi ni vi ili oni (I you he she it we you they one), we can form the possessive adjectives:

Possessive Adjective in Esperanto	Possessive Adjective in English
mia	my
via	your
lia	his
ŝia	her
ĝia	its
nia	our
via	your
ilia (pronounced ee-LEE-a)	their
onia	one’s

Possessive adjectives in Esperanto are really adjectives because they identify (describe) the nouns they are attached to.

• Mia plumo = my pen.

The ending "-a" on possessive adjectives follows the same rules about agreement as adjectives:

• Mia amiko amas mian fratinon. Miaj amikoj amas miajn fratinojn.

Sources

https://esperanto-afriko.webs.com/kurso%20angle.pdf

Other Lessons

• PREPOSITIONS
• Interrogative Sentences
• COMPARATIVES
• PREFIXES
• Nouns
• Pronouns
• THE ACCUSATIVE
• Personal pronouns
• Interrogation
• Plurals